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(No Modli J. H. THOMPSON.

HAND GVULTIVATOR.

Patent d Dec. 11, 1883.

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UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE.

JAMES THOMPSON, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

HAND-CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,142, dated December11, 1883.

Application filed June 4, 1883. (No 'model.)

on. which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of the cultivator. Figs.2, 3, and 4 are perspective views of the attachments.

This invention has relation to hand-cultivators; and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafterfully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates thecultivator-frame,

having a single front supportingwheel, 2), working in bearings extendingupwardly and forwardly from the side bars of the cultivatorframe. Thebearing-irons c are bolted to the outer sides of the side bars,-d, andbetween these side bars, d, near their forward ends, is secured anadjustable angle-iron, 6, having its rearwardly-extending arms fprovided with perforation g, through which the adjustingbolts h pass.The lateral bar 2' of this angleiron 6 is perforated, and provided withan ad- 3 5 justable staple, k, by which the beams of interchangeableimplements are attached to the cultivator-frame.

The main object of the cultivator-frame is to permit interchangeableimplements to be attached and so adjusted out of line as to permit thesoil to be'upturned or operated upon,

holding the handles of the frame to walk on the undisturbed soil.

The several attachments are provided with angular beams Z, of roundform, which are passed 7 up through the staple and the nutsm intightened, to hold them to their angle of adjustment, which will bedetermined by the operator. In respect to the beam the attachments areall similar; in other respects they differ.

at designates a cultivator for large plants. It has pivoted wings 0 anda sectional are, p, perforated for the reception of bolts q, by which itmay be adjusted from a diametrical front to a receding radial front.

1" designates another attachment, provided with shovel-teeth for largerplants, which is also made laterally adjustable to suit the widthbetween the plants.

8 designates a scraper and t is a plow-andvegetables and vines can becultivated.

changeable attachments, nearly all kinds of and at the same time permitthe operator colter attachment by which matted beds of l Having thusfully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby v Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a cultivator-frame having the front wheel combinedwith the angle-iron, of the perforated arms f and the adjustableseeuringstaple 70, adapted to receive interchangeably the variousimplements, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES H. THOMPSON.

ALBERT SWARTZLANDER.

